Acopia Adaptive Resource Switch, Руководство по обслуживанию CLI

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CLI Maintenance Guide 1-1
Chapter 1
Introduction
This manual contains instructions and best practices for troubleshooting and
maintaining the Adaptive Resource Switch (ARX®) after it is fully connected to the
network and running storage services. These instructions focus on the Command-Line
Interface (CLI).
Use this book after the ARX is installed, connected to the IP network, and serving
clients. The platform’s
Hardware Installation manual explains how to install the
ARX. You can set up basic networking through a GUI wizard (as described in GUI
Quick Start: Network Setup manual), or work with the more-advanced CLI features
described in CLI Network-Management Guide . The GUI provides wizards for
configuring most of the storage features in the ARX (see GUI Quick Start Guide:
CIFS Storage and/or GUI Quick Start Guide: NFS Storage for instructions on using
these wizards); the CLI Storage-Management Guide provides procedures and
best-practices for configuring all of them through the CLI.
The ARX
The Adaptive Resource Switch (ARX®) is a highly available and scalable solution
that brings resource awareness to a file storage infrastructure, and adapts these
resources to meet the demands of users and applications in real time. The ARX
provides a file-virtualization layer that aggregates the total capacity and performance
of your file storage. A
namespace provides location-independent, transparent
mapping of user requests onto the appropriate storage resource. You can configure
policies that the switch enforces for the placement, replication and migration of files.
Through policy configuration, the ARX adapts to the real-time demands of users and
applications. The ARX thereby serves as a
resource proxy for the files and services
behind it.